• @[email protected]
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    83 months ago

    Owning a property is not a job but maintaining one can be. If you don’t own the property then that’d just be called being a janitor.

    • @Censored
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      33 months ago

      Janitors are cleaners. Typically the people who maintain apartments are called maintenance workers, handymen, or (old fashioned) superintendent. Sometimes property manager, if they also handle renting it out.

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        3 months ago

        We often just call them janitors here, I bet the vernacular changes from place to place. But cleaners are often separate, janitors do maintenance work and cleaners do cleaning work

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        Definition of janitor:

        one who keeps the premises of a building (such as an apartment or office) clean, tends the heating system, and makes minor repairs

        https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/janitor

        a person employed to take care of a large building, such as a school, and who deals with the cleaning, repairs, etc.

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        a person whose job is to clean and take care of a building

        https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/janitor

        • @Censored
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          13 months ago

          Janitors are only employed in large, expensive apartment buildings. Single family homes don’t use them, nor do cheaper apartments. So that’s not really descriptive of a landlords job at all.

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            13 months ago

            Landlord can be the person responsible for that (depends on the agreement) and often where I’m from they contract it from bigger company